Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Constant change is here to stay.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.